NYT Manga Bestsellers: One Piece Conquers Half of NYT Top 10

VIZ Media has announced that 9 of its manga titles have made the New York Time’s Manga Best Seller list for the week ending April 10th. Half of the list consists of new volumes of super awesome pirate adventure manga, ONE PIECE by Eiichiro Oda.

So, how come five volumes of ONE PIECE have appeared in the list of Top 10 this week? Well, the answer is pretty simple. As njt posted before, Viz will be releasing five volumes of ONE PIECE per month, from January through June, to catch up to the Japanese publishing schedule, and bring the latest volumes of this popular series to fans sooner than ever.

“It’s exciting to see such a wide variety of VIZ Media titles reach this level of popularity,” says Gonzalo Ferreyra, Vice President of Sales, VIZ Media. “From the irresistible bite of ROSARIO + VAMPIRE, to the high seas pirate adventures of ONE PIECE, to the romantic shojo hijinks of THE GENTLEMEN’S ALLIANCE, these titles continue to show the diversity of the manga genre and its strong appeal among readers of all ages and interests.”

But individually, Naruto unsurprisingly tops One Piece here in America. US manga fanbases, in great part, have no taste. Hopefully all of this manga will help shift american attention the way it should have been for the last 6+ years (I don't think One Piece was brokenly popular more than 6 years ago, but I could be wrong).

People seem to be forgetting that the reason why One Piece isn't as popular as it should be in the US is due to the 4Kids horror that used to air on televisions across the continent. I used to hate One Piece because of that...now I love it more than any other shounen.

Can someone tell me how this is an accomplishment? Or why is this even news?LOL at the One Piece fans celebrating consider it's not even in the top rather bottom of the list, while volumes 28-38 has never been ranked, it'll be gone by next week

@ChocoBar9: Are you saying this isn't accomplishment for OP since Bleach didn't make it on the top ten sales chart?

@KayalhawK: Something similar happened to me as well. At first I was a huge Bleach fan when I read all of its chapters that were released at that time some time ago. Then I became a Naruto fan when I caught up to it after VIZ's second skip. When VIZ announced that One Piece was going to have a huge skip, I caught up to it as well. It took me about a month to do so but it was worth it. Now One Piece is my favorite shounen manga.

Now that I think about it, why is Yugioh R! on second place? Is yugioh R! much better than the original Yugioh! manga series?